In this week’s photos from around New York, 100,000 pounds of rope is installed in Madison Square Park, entertainment options in the NoMad neighborhood grow and an electro-pop opera pops up downtown.

Jennifer Gomez stands with a large-scale self-portrait in Times Square on Monday. French artist JR’s project ‘Inside Out’ invites the public into the specially designed photo booth truck to take self-portraits that will be pasted onto the ground. (Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal)

Investigators look over the section of East 140th Street in the south Bronx where a 22-year-old male was shot repeatedly Monday. (Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal)

Fourteen-year-old Aileen Mendez, a student at the High School of Fashion Industries, works on her dress made from recycled magazine and fabric strips as she participated in the ‘Recycle the Runway’ promotional event at Queens Center mall on Monday. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal)

‘Red, Yellow and Blue,’ a work by artist Orly Genger, is installed in Madison Square Park on Tuesday. The work features 1.4 million feet of repurposed nautical rope collected from the Eastern seaboard, covered in paint and weighing over 100,000 pounds. (Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall S)

The Tandoori Fish Tikka at Malai Marke, a new Indian restaurant in the East Village. (Stephen Yang for the Wall Street Jou)

Former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore, 21, is pictured at the Affinia Shelburne Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday. Lattimore was considered a number one draft pick before he suffered a knee injury in October. (Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal)

Owner of the Flatiron Hotel, Robert ’Toshi‘ Chan, is hoping to lure in the after-work crowd with his new rooftop bar, ‘Toshi’s Penthouse.’ New bars and restaurants are opening these days at a fever pitch in NoMad, or north of Madison Square Park. (Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal)

A root beer float made with Bacardi, Averna, Baylan’s root beer and vanilla ice cream at the newly opened restaurant and bar, Hudson Common inside the Hudson Hotel. (Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal)

Cardinal Timothy Dolan greets graduating seniors on Wednesday from the aisles of St Patrick’s Cathedral, currently under construction, for an annual Mass for the year’s graduating classes. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

The living area and kitchen of a 3,000-square-foot penthouse in NoHo, on the market for $8.5 million. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

Wine director Josh Nadel poses for a portrait at Lafayette, a restaurant, bar and bakery which opened last week in Astor Place. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

Workers construct the interior of Kazino, a downtown pop-up venue custom-built for the electro-pop opera ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.’ (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

The Salad Nicoise at Grape and Vine inside the Jade Hotel in the West Village. (Stephen Yang for the Wall Street Journal)

People read in the sun in front of Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan on Monday. A period of stable, warm weather is in store for the next few days for Greater New York. (Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal)